WBHM: A group of civil rights organizations and U.S. citizens is suing the State Department over its sweeping suspension of immigrant visa processing for people from 75 countries, arguing the new policy attempted to “eviscerate decades of settled immigration law.”
The Trump administration’s visa ban, which went into effect on Jan. 21, affects countries including Afghanistan, Somalia, Brazil, Colombia, Thailand, Russia and Cambodia, and is intended to stem immigration from nations “whose migrants take welfare from the American people at unacceptable rates.” But the complaint, filed in Manhattan federal court filed Monday, says it imposes a nationality-based ban on legal immigration that strips families and working people of the process guaranteed by law.
It states: “The law has never deemed a person inadmissible merely because they have received, or may one day need, non-cash public benefits or private charitable assistance; indeed, such temporary support has always been understood as part of the lawful process of integration and economic growth.”
The State Department did not immediately respond to NPR’s request for comment, but the vast majority of countries on the freeze list have populations that are majority non-white and are outside Europe. According to previous posts on social media, the department said the temporary ban will “remain active until the U.S. can ensure that new immigrants will not extract wealth from the American people.”
The lawsuit was brought by the National Immigration Law Center, Democracy Forward and The Legal Aid Society, among other groups, on behalf of a wide range of plaintiffs, including U.S. citizens who say they have been separated from family members because of the policy.
Vice President of Litigation at the National Immigration Law Center Efrén Olivares, told NPR that the State Department, under the direction of Secretary Marco Rubio failed to follow the regulatory process prior to enacting the blanket pause on immigrant visas. “It’s just inconceivable that every single person from an entire country would pose any sort of risk of becoming what the law calls a ‘public charge,’” he said.
Among the plaintiffs is a physician and endocrinologist from Colombia who completed postdoctoral training in molecular physiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School in 2000. He was approved for the so-called “Einstein Visa,” reserved for people of “extraordinary ability,” in January 2025. But last week he learned he was ineligible for an employment-based first preference immigration visa because Colombia falls under the ban.
A study, published last week by the Cato Institute, found that “immigrants consumed about 24 percent less in welfare benefits than native-born Americans on a per capita basis, which is unsurprising because even lower-skilled immigrants are positively selected and have limited legal access to welfare.”
Olivares added, “The only thing we’re asking here in this case is that the government follow the law and conduct individualized assessments of visa applicants and not discriminate based on nationality against nearly half of the countries in the world.”
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Nice headline but this will not go anywhere, especially as this will take time to wind it’s way thru the legal system and ultimately being upheld by the right wing supreme court.
TRUMP: NONE OF YOU ARE COMING BACK HERE TILL IM OUT OF OFFICE..NONE ZIP ZERO….WE DON’T NEED YOU GUYS AS MUCH AS YOU GUYS NEED US…OK WHO’S NEXT?? NO NO YOUR CNN FAKE NEWS..YOU IN THE ORANGE TOP GO AHEAD PLEASE…
Almost half of the American people receiving aid from the government. Some for even being .5% disabled. Thats what the American government needs to focus on. No one works harder than immigrants. Americans will sit on their asses for 364 days waiting to receive a stimulus check on the 365th day. BYE
Let’s just say, this is the tactical and diplomatic move which the CARICOM should have made from day one, instead of having the ship sailing rudderless on the open Caribbean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean, as its leaders running around on deck like a bunch of headless chickens, abusing and blaming each other personally.
One in particular is allegedly suing a US law firm for defamation etc, by using scare public funds from an almost empty treasury, while others have already agreed to take in Americas refuse and one may have unwittingly supported the CIA-DRUGS R US KATEL in killing civilians in International waters.
But, be that as it may, and not only is this lawsuit making it clear, that Americans will not go down without a fight, once they realize that they’ve being bamboozled to a certain extent; the American voters even in DEEP RED REPUBLICAN STATES like Texas are letting this Trump Administration and its MAGA25 Movement know, enough is enough.
This week the Republican Majority in the House of Representatives have being cut 1, One single vote and no doubt soon even before the Mid-Term Elections come this November will probably be even or flipped with the vying for Majorie Taylor Greene seat in again a Republican stronghold. (Antiguans and Barbudans will do well to take this page out of the American voters playbook to make a change to their Government but not necessarily, just replacing one political party for another, but for individuals who are willing to put their necks on the chopping blocks, to correct some of the ills of the system(s), of government such as cronyism, malfeasance, insider trading, corruption, piss poor management etc.).
So yes, this lawsuit is a prime example of why the legal fraternity MUST step to the crease and bar like the Master Blaster. Help out the Nation, for no organization in the Nation has the information, the power, capacity and capability to affect the changes need to add some direction to Our Nation’s rudderless ship. We understand you want to be paid, and paid handsomely for your legal services, but again take a step back in time, remember the millions which Sir Alexander Vivian Richards could have made, as he was transforming cricket around the globe. He refused to play for a South African Apartheid Racist Fascist System. Raise your standard Bar Association, answer the call like these legal beagles in America are doing.
Nuff said…
Jumbee_Picknee aka Ras Smood
De’ole Dutty Peg🦶🏿 Garrat_Bastard
Vere Edwards
Let’s just say, this is the tactical and diplomatic move which the CARICOM should have made from day one, instead of having the ship sailing rudderless on the open Caribbean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean, as its leaders running around on deck like a bunch of headless chickens, abusing and blaming each other personally.
One in particular is allegedly suing a US law firm for defamation etc, by using scare public funds from an almost empty treasury, while others have already agreed to take in Americas refuse and one may have unwittingly supported the CIA-DRUGS R US KATEL in killing civilians in International waters.
But, be that as it may, and not only is this lawsuit making it clear, that Americans will not go down without a fight, once they realize that they’ve being bamboozled to a certain extent; the American voters even in DEEP RED REPUBLICAN STATES like Texas are letting this Trump Administration and its MAGA25 Movement know, enough is enough.
This week the Republican Majority in the House of Representatives have being cut 1, One single vote and no doubt soon even before the Mid-Term Elections come this November will probably be even or flipped with the vying for Majorie Taylor Greene seat in again a Republican stronghold. (Antiguans and Barbudans will do well to take this page out of the American voters playbook to make a change to their Government but not necessarily, just replacing one political party for another, but for individuals who are willing to put their necks on the chopping blocks, to correct some of the ills of the system(s), of government such as cronyism, malfeasance, insider trading, corruption, piss poor management etc.).
So yes, this lawsuit is a prime example of why the legal fraternity MUST step to the crease and bar like the Master Blaster. Help out the Nation, for no organization in the Nation has the information, the power, capacity and capability to affect the changes need to add some direction to Our Nation’s rudderless ship. We understand you want to be paid, and paid handsomely for your legal services, but again take a step back in time, remember the millions which Sir Alexander Vivian Richards could have made, as he was transforming cricket around the globe. He refused to play for a South African Apartheid Racist Fascist System. Raise your standard Bar Association, answer the call like these legal beagles in America are doing.
Nuff said…
Except I just saw @Cool Ruler’s post.
It will go [somewhere] even if, it’s gonna take time to wind its way all the way to the SCOTUS – The Supreme Court of the United States; however, in the interim, what it can do, as is the case with many of Trumps Executive Orders, it can put a [stay], on those orders, until such time when they can hear the case in its ebtirety. By that time, it would bring relief to students and individuals who are seeking medical care to come and complete their tasks.
Nothing could be more traumatic than to be for example in your senior year and you have being accepted in say a residency, fellowship or masters program with a full scholarship, but your visa is about to expire and you’re unable to get a renewal. How devastating and traumatic, or you have being approved for medical treatment but can’t get a visa.
Jumbee_Picknee aka Ras Smood
De’ole Dutty Peg🦶🏿 Garrat_Bastard
Vere Edwards
@this world is a messed up place…I love a good laugh. As a matter of fact, I followed Flip Wilson to George Carlin to Eddie Myrphy to Freddy “OG” Stanford, to Katt Williams who recently drop the Bitch word on Melania.
No need to stress, ma’am, sir, it, Tran, Pan or Sapir just keep laughing because it’s damn good for the soul, no doubt No doubt!
But, let me give you a #shout_out, TRUMP will be out prior to the end of his second term.
One of the Republicans Deepest RED STATE, TEXAS, just sent an 8.0 earthquake through the their State Senate by flipping a Republican seat to a Democrat by a 14% swing from the last election.
The Republicans now have a ONE SEAT MAJORITY in the House of Representative. Speaker Johnson has no wriggle room. He making compromises like a Jack in the Box.
The US House will flip to become Democratic this fall, pray that the Senste doesn’t because if it does, not only will the convicted felon Trump be impeached for a third time, this time the votes will be in the Senate to remove him. So, think Watergate but dream Bill & Monica, but Donald Trumps orange ass is on fire like Minnesota is due to the I.C.E. Cold blood running through his veins.
You better hope Trump don’t become the next Jeffery Epstein.
#Suicide or #Myrder_She_Wrote!
Jumbee Picknee aka Ras Smood
De’ole Dutty Peg 🦶🏿 Garrat_Bastard
Vere Edwards
WHAT THE HELL…! …LITIGATING MIGRANTS OF SOME 75 COUNTRIES?
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KICK NOT AGAINST THE PRICKS:
UNLESS ONE INTENDS TO BE ‘…PRICKED.’ [KJV: ACTS: 9: 5].
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Most interesting bit of ‘…LITIGIOUS NEWS.’
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THOUGH:
(a) ‘…INDEPENDENT:
(b) …DEMOCRATIC: and
(c) …SOVEREIGN:’ absolutely
NOWHERE WILL THE NAMED ‘…COUNTRIES’:
(i) ‘…ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA:
(ii) …COMMONWEALTH OF DOMINICA:
(iii) …FEDERATION OF ST. KITTS AND NEVIS: and
(iv) …ST. LUCIA,’ will be reported as ‘…PARTIES’ to the ‘…LITIGIOUS PROCEEDINGS.’
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EVEN AS, TWO PRIME MINISTERS:
(i) ‘…SUSPENSION OF MIGRANT VISAS,’ ROOSEVELT SKERRIT: speaks to
(a) …DIPLOMATIC PRESSURES BY THE UNITED STATES: while
(ii) …CESSATION OF CUBAN MEDICAL PROGRAMME’ PHILIP J. PIERRE: speaks to
(ii) …PRESSURE, BUT ‘…BROADER DIPLOMATIC AND ECONOMIC INTERESTS’ [ANR: Paragraph 3: February 2, 2026].
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VOICE AND FINGER: …CHOIR MASTER OR BANDLEADER
NEITHER THE ‘…CARICOM, NOR OECS MEMBERSHIP: could
(a) ‘…RAISE A VOICE: nor
(b) …POINT A ‘BATON’ OR FINGER.’
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WHAT THE HELL…!
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STORM OR FEAST…?
GOT TO ALLOW THE STORM OR FEAST, WHATEVER, TO ‘…PASS-OVER.’
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BE CAREFUL.
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